Problems in Egypt

Just on midnight last night I got a phone call from my younger brother from Luxor in Southern Egypt. He was using a mobile phone that did not depend on the local mobile network and could ring out of the country.

He and his girlfriend were off to Aswan the next morning but he needed me to contact the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs to let them know that he and his girlfriend were in Egypt. Fortunately they had an emergency number that I rang at 10 past 12 and their details were entered into the database.

While it is apparently safe in Southern Egypt at the moment, they are scheduled to fly back to Cairo in 4 days and this is where the problem lies, flights are now unreliable and Cairo is unstable with the government and protesters fighting in the streets.

Since I posted this my brother and his girlfriend have returned to Australia and are OK. Apparently they has some delays getting from Aswan back to Cairo but once they were in Cairo everything worked OK.

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